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Discover the best-selling art books and insightful artist biographies at our online bookstore, featuring a curated selection of must-read books about art and artwork. Explore our collection to find the best books to read, from captivating artist biographies to beautifully illustrated artwork books.
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Magdalena Abakanowicz: Writings and ConversationsProse poems, talks, conversations and more from the leading postwar sculptorSpanning her lengthy career, this compendium of Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz's (1930-2017) writings is the first to bring together her prose poems, her lectures, correspondence with other artists and interviews (including a previously unpublished...
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A Contemporary Journey Into Video Art: On the Fringes of IdentitySurveying international video art todayThis fully illustrated catalog appraises the diversity of video art today. Artists include Ramin Haerizadeh, Arash Nassiri, Shirin Neshat, Erkan Özgen, Maya Watanabe, Adrián Balseca, Javier Castro, Jonathas de Andrade, Pipilotti Rist, Bill Viola, Thao Nguyen Phan, Aziz Hazara and...
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The Tudors: Passion, Power and PoliticsOn the Tudors and their legacy, from Henry VIII to Elizabeth IThis illustrated volume shows how the Tudor monarchs of Britain engaged with the internationalism of court culture; the tumultuous years of the Reformation; and the emergence of the transatlantic slave trade and English...
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Sinatra and Me: The Very Good YearsAn intimate look at the legendary Frank Sinatra by one of his closest friends. Not many people were allowed inside Frank Sinatra's inner circle. But Tony Consiglio was a boyhood friend of Sinatra's who remained his friend and confidant for over sixty years. One...
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The Art of Minorities: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North AfricaHow are issues related to identity representation negotiated in Middle Eastern and North African museums? Can museums provide a suitable canvas for minorities to express their voice? Can narratives change and stereotypes be broken and, if so, what kind of identities are being deployed?...
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Monet. Le Triomphe de l'ImpressionnismeÀ part Turner, aucun artiste n'a comme Claude Monet (1840-1926) travaillé autant à capturer la lumière sur la toile. De tous les impressionnistes, celui dont Cézanne disait qu'il n'était qu'un oeil, mais bon Dieu, quel oeil! est le seul à ne jamais s'être écarté...
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The Art of Masamune Shirow: Volume 3: EroticaTHE ART OF MASAMUNE SHIROWVOLUME 3: EROTICAby Jeremy Mark RobinsonThis is a study of the erotic art of Masamune Shirow (real name Masanori Ota, born in 1961, Kobe, Japan), a Japanese artist best known for the comics Ghost In the Shell, Appleseed and Dominion:...
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Vintage Art: Emile-Allain Seguy: 16 Fine Art Prints: Butterfly Ephemera for Framing, Decoupage, Collage and Mixed MediaVintage Art: Emile-Allain Seguy: 16 Fine Art Prints features reproductions of intricate butterfly pochoir plates by Emile-Allain Seguy (1877-1951 ), a French designer. Emile specialised in Art Deco and Art Nouveau design, textile patterns and illustrations of insects. Throughout this curated collection, there are...
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Corporate Cultural Responsibility: How Business Can Support Art, Design, and CultureIs corporate investing in the arts and culture within communities good business? Written by an expert on the topic who ran the Corporate Art Program at Johnson & Johnson, the book sets out the case for business patronage of the arts and culture and...
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The Eugene Mosley Story: The Kid That Accepted God's CallingThe Eugene Mosley Story follows the life of Eugene Mosley, explaining how he overcame adversary, bullying, and doubt. Eugene overcame these obstacles to become a legendary Jazz Portrait Artist, traveling the world, meeting some of the most influential and powerful people alive, and establishing...
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Victorian Connections: The Literary and Artistic Circles of William and Helen Allingham from the Collections of Grolier Club MembersDrawn entirely from the collections of Grolier Club members, this catalogue is devoted to the husband and wife duo William (1824-1889) and Helen Allingham (1848-1926), the former a poet, diarist, and editor and the latter one of the most successful artists of her time....
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Indians Playing Indian: Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North AmericaExplores how American Indian artists have responded to the pervasive misunderstanding of indigenous peoples as cultural minorities in the United States and Canada Contemporary indigenous peoples in North America confront a unique predicament. While they are reclaiming their historic status as sovereign nations, mainstream...
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Allart Van Everdingen: Master of the Rugged LandscapeThe first English-language introduction to the evocative, detailed and subversively artificial landscapes of a neglected Dutch masterIn 1644 the young Dutch artist Allart van Everdingen (1621-75) traveled in Norway. It was an inspiring experience that set the course for his career. He went on...
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Faces of GraffitiFor seven years, photographer and psychotherapist Caroline Jensen has traveled back and forth between Stockholm and New York to photograph graffiti writers. Faces of Graffiti shows intimate portraits of writers that Caroline Jensen has established a deep and personal connection with. The book portrays...
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Single Lives: Modern Women in Literature, Culture, and FilmSingle Lives is a collection of singleness studies essays from the interdisciplinary humanities that explores the last two hundred years of literature and popular media by, about, and for single women in the US and the UK. Independent women have always been a center...
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Painting in Excess: Kyiv's Art Revival, 1985-1993The upheavals of glasnost and perestroika followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union remarkably transformed the art scene in Kyiv, launching Ukrainian contemporary art as a global phenomenon. The previously calm waters of the culturally provincial capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic became...
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Colour Dynamics II: Painting the Twelve-Fold Colour Language of Aristotle and Rudolf SteinerColour Dynamics II is based on the "world alphabet" of Aristotle's categories, extended by Rudolf Steiner. It enables readers to deepen and extend their own color insights. Color affects us deeply. We can feel the soul of the world when immersed in color. Imagine...
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Art and Nuclear Power: The Role of Culture in the Environmental DebateHumanity is struggling with the environmental destruction and social change caused by modern technologies like nuclear reactors. Politicians, scientists, and business leaders all too often revert to a tried and tested set of solutions that fails to grasp the wicked nature of the problem....
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Robert Heinecken and the Art of AppropriationThe first comprehensive study of the artist Robert Heinecken and his critical views on the culture of mass media This is the first book-length study dedicated to the artist Robert Heinecken, whose innovative photographic practices sought to interrogate how mass media imagery facilitated the...
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Chinese Contemporary Art in the Global Auction MarketChinese Contemporary Art in the Global Auction Market examines the rapid rise of the global market for Chinese Contemporary art across the turn of the millennium. Focusing on key auction events, it traces the systematic and strategic role played by auction houses in promoting...
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